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Phys. Rev. D 74, 024011 (2006) [9 pages]

Rotating black holes in higher dimensional Einstein-Maxwell gravity

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A. N. Aliev
TUBITAK-BU, Feza Gürsey Institute, P.K. 6 Çengelköy, 81220 Istanbul, Turkey

Received 4 May 2006; published 10 July 2006

The strategy of obtaining the familiar Kerr-Newman solution in general relativity is based on either using the metric ansatz in the Kerr-Schild form, or applying the method of complex coordinate transformation to a nonrotating charged black hole. In practice, this amounts to an appropriate rescaling of the mass parameter in the metric of uncharged black holes. Using a similar approach, we assume a special metric ansatz in N+1 dimensions and present a new analytic solution to the Einstein-Maxwell system of equations. It describes rotating charged black holes with a single angular momentum in the limit of slow rotation. We also give the metric for a slowly rotating charged black hole with two independent angular momenta in five dimensions. Finally, we compute the gyromagnetic ratio of these black holes which corresponds to the value g=N-1.

© 2006 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.74.024011
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevD.74.024011
PACS:
04.70.Bw, 04.50.+h